Firm Believers And False Certainties

• Beliefs can create prisons within the mind.
• False certainties only lead to self deception.
• Change can only come through expanding your consciousness.

The degree to which you “dehypnotise” yourself from your false beliefs, will be in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself. Regardless of whether you like that truth or not.

By accepting the truth you automatically remove false beliefs that may have been implanted in your mind (and their associated thought patterns and behaviours), and replace them with true beliefs that you know to be true and are willing to accept.

It is only from these true beliefs that your true potential will grow, because truth cannot be found within the illusion created by false beliefs.

However in order to awaken this potential, you first need to understand what beliefs are and how you can change them.

What Are Beliefs?

Beliefs are any kind of information that the conscious or subconscious mind has accepted as true. They can broadly be divided into two groups.

Positive Beliefs

Positive empowering beliefs enable your life to grow and expand, and are typically characterised by open and free thinking.

For example, “I believe I am capable of accomplishing anything”, would be an example of a positive empowering belief.

Positive beliefs set no limit on what you believe you can achieve, and therefore do not impose any limitations or restrictions on your thoughts and actions.

This type of mindset thinks that there is always a way something can be done.

Negative Beliefs

The second group of beliefs are negative limiting beliefs, and are characterised by closed and restricting language.

“I could never do that, I’m just not good enough”, would be an example of a negative limiting belief.

These types of beliefs tend to prevent a person from physically going after their goals, and if they do try to achieve their goals, it will usually be done half heartedly with the expectation of failure.

In this way, negative limiting beliefs can prevent external success in the world, by preventing internal success in the mind.

Do Your Beliefs Imprison You, Or Empower You?

Unfortunately, the most common type of beliefs people have are limiting negative beliefs.

These can cause people to become imprisoned by the things they believe in, only seeing what their beliefs allow them to see, and rejecting everything else.

The “Firm Believer”

A good example of how beliefs can imprison you, can be found with “firm believers”.

These types of people have a firm belief about something, and are unwilling to listen to or explore other ideas that are outside their belief. They know they are right, and everything else is wrong.

Another name for the firm believer is a “know it all”, whereby they think they know everything already, and so think they have nothing else to learn.

Generally these types of people like doing things in an old established way, in a way that they are used to and have always done. 

Anything new presents a threat to them, makes them feel uncomfortable and causes them to reject it.

The Different Types Of Firm Believers

However not all firm believers are this extreme, and it is important to realize that there are different types of firm believers.

Some firm believers build a big wall around their beliefs, blocking any information that does not completely support their existing belief.

Whilst others, have smaller walls. These walls still protect their beliefs, although they may be slightly more open to new information. 

However regardless of their size, these walls still serve to protect their existing beliefs. Causing firm believers to hold onto their beliefs very tightly.

The trouble with firm believers is that they are very unwilling to change their mind about something, once they have formed an opinion about it.

They only recognise what lies within the walls they have constructed around their beliefs, which prevents them from exploring any truth that lies outside the wall. These false assumptions of certainty make them ignorant.

False Certainties

A false assumption of certainty is something that you regard to be true, but is in fact false.

These false certainties can present a great barrier to self improvement, because they tend to distort reality and lead to self deception.

False certainties cause you to view things in the way you want to see them, rather than how they really are. By doing so, they blind you to the truth by showing you an illusion.

Since a person can only truly change their life once they become fully aware of the person they are, it is therefore extremely important to accept the possibility that many of the things you regard to be true about yourself, may actually be false.

This understanding is often referred to as your “level of consciousness”, which simply describes how “enlightened”, or how aware you are of the truth about yourself, and the world you live in.

Determinants Of Consciousness

You level of consciousness is determined by many factors, some of which include:

• All the things you have learnt in your life.
• Your friends and family.
• Experiences you have had throughout your life.
• Successes and failures you have had.
• Your religious beliefs.

All of these factors will in some way shape and form your current level of consciousness. This then determines what you accept, and what you reject, into your mental and physical world.

The most influential years of your life, in terms of expanding your level of consciousness, occur during your childhood and teenage years of life.

However after this period, many people find it hard to expand their consciousness and as a result tend to keep the same false limiting beliefs they picked up during their childhood.

This can lead to a lifetime of unfulfilment and dissatisfaction where they never see the true reality about themselves, and therefore never see what they are truly capable of.

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